Working night shift

taytor21

I seem to have a hard time with tracking because I work nightshift things are a little backwards do I track something I eat a 3 am for a new day breakfast or yesterday s snack ? How should I try to set up my eating habits ? I seem to be having 1 meal a day because I sleep the rest of the day any night shift workers ?

VelociFit

I feel your pain! I've experimented with ways to track meals while on night shift. My current method is to count from when I wake up (as a breakfast) to when I sleep (as dinner.) If I wake up and eat a snack, I'll usually count it on whatever "day" it's closest to.

I worked last night (Sunday,) so I counted calories starting from breakfast at 5pm until dinner at 8am. My day started on Sunday, so that's where I log it. I rarely get MFP to acknowledge my logging with a post about me completing my food log, sadly, since I'm a day behind by MFP's "clock." And that's despite setting my "local time zone" on MFP as late as I could get it.

I try to stick to three meals a day, whether my "day" is daylight or night time. Let me know if you find any good tips and tricks! Night shift life is rough.

taytor21

Thanks for your help that's kind of what I've been trying to do, except I do it reverse I will get up and have dinner with the family around 630 pm so I'm starting off the day with the biggest meal and then go to work have a snack around 930 pm then "lunch" around 12- 1 am then finish with a breakfast around 5 am I'm not sure if it works but from what I've been reading it seems like it but again MFP logs a different day now my days between is a whole different story it is rough !! Best wishes